Tagged: water pollution

OTTAWA — More than $100 million in cuts are underway at the federal department in charge of protecting Canada's water and oceans, despite recommendations from top bureaucrats that it needs to increase spending for both environmental and economic reasons.

OTTAWA - Environment Canada is recommending that the Harper government toughen rules to prevent water pollution from industrial mines and that it expand federal monitoring to at least four new substances released from mining activity.

OTTAWA – Separate oil spills in 2010 – one from an abandoned pipeline owned by a midstream energy company, the other from an oilsands company's well – were caused by inadequate oversight and monitoring, according to federal government records, which concluded they violated environmental laws.

OTTAWA—Environment Minister Peter Kent says a federally funded research facility that studies water pollution contributed to his department’s national mandate, but he approached the premier of Manitoba to help fill a void in the wake of budget cuts.

OTTAWA – Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea is defending a government decision to wind down a major scientific facility studying water pollution, explaining her department can now meet its research needs by focusing on its other Canadian facilities.